Learning From Disasters: Twenty-One Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Will Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Finally Address the Systemic Flaws Revealed in Alaska?
Twenty-one years ago, after the calamitous Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) in Alaska's Prince William Sound, the pervasive systemic flaws--that, according to the State of Alaska Oil Spill Commission, had made a major calamity not just possible but probable1--were largely cloaked behind the figure of a captain with a drinking problem.